The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-07-28
property now yields more than 5000.
900 q year. When Lord Dorchester
inherits his fathers estates he will
have at least $780, 900 q year MORE
General Pickett's Widow.

From the N. Y. World Gettysburg Letter.
/ had q conversation with Mrs.
Pickett upon her returnto the Springs
hotel from the battlefield. She has
been profoundly impressed by the
friendship and courtesy extended to
the men Of her husbands old division
and with the touching and delicate
kindness exhibited towards herself.
While we sat talking, numbers OF the
Philadt lphia brigade, in couples and
tours and sometimes in larger num-
bers, were frequently calling to pay
their respects before departing rom
Gettysburg, and to assure her OF their
interest and kindly feeling. In almost
| every instance these men left their Or
ganization bad ges with her, and the
| wife of one of the Seventy-irst, who
| accompanied her husband, took from
her breast and pinned upon that OF
Mrs. Pickett a bow made of blue and
gray ribbons. Neither Of the ladies
| could utter a word during the touch
ing performance, but the fearful eyes
| and warm pressure of hands as they
| separated were more eloquent than
any words that were struggling Tor ut
terance. g,
"Do you know" said Mrs. Pickett,
| as she pointed to the ribbon souvenir
of blue and gray, "that I have been
mingling these colors ortwenty years.
| When the war was ove the women OF
| the south were far more bitter than
our defeated soldiers. We refused all
o%vertures looking to reconstruction
| and declined every offer for reconcilia-
| ton. Twenty years ago / was in New
York city. Gen. Ingalls, called upon
ner OF greeting General Ingalls, that /
did not have very warm regard for
him. Gen. Ingalls, noticed this, and:
said: MY dear Mrs. Pickett, you
shoul.d not entertain and perpetuates
hostile feelings towardyour husbands
army friends. Why, he and I were to-
gether at West Point. We slept un-
der the same blanket and fought side
by side under the same flag in a for
eign land. There should be no bitter
ness in your breast toward me and his
other army friends That speech OF
General Ingalls, caused my reconcilia-
ton. 1t explained the feeling
that brave soldiers entertain
for each other. The following day I
took my husbands watch, the am
that was presented to him upon his
graduation at West Point, to q jewel
er, had the union and confederate
flags placed upon the outside of the
case with their staff crossed, and up-
on it's inside I had engraved the names
of the battles in which he participated
under the union flag in Mexico and
those in which he participated under
the confederate flag"
She said that on the morning OF
July 3, 1868, while Pickett's division
lay in the woods preparatory to the
fatal charge, the general wrote her q
letter, In which he told his wife about
his orders to charge upon Cemetary
hill. In the letter he referred to his
meeting with General Longstreet in,
correction with the order to charg
and the hesitatin9 manner OF the la1 \
ter when Pickett asked Longstreet
he should nov on Cemetery hill wiz
his division. W
"After he had concluded and signed
his letter." said Mrs. Pickett, stf,e
general added a postscript in which he
said 4 know that Longstreet's nod, II
it meant anything, means death. God
bless you, little one.'"